From the Book - First edition.
The mathmatical cult leader Pythagoras, and his incredibly stupid death
Confucius was an ugly nerd with low self-esteem
Never, ever hire Leonardo da Vinci
Galileo utterly fails to read the room
The entirely unbelievable life of Tycho Brahe
When René Descartes got baked
Isaac Newton and the Philosopher's Stone
Mozart uses his superstar status to tell us all to kiss his arse... over and over again
Benjamin Franklin uses world-changing technology to prank friends, self
Émilie du Châtelet cares not for your social mores, and she will fight you in her underwear to prove it
Johann Christian Reil invents psychiatry and things get really weird really quickly
Napoleon Bonaparte's fluffiest foe
Lord Byron, the patron saint of fuckboys
Ada Lovelace's (husband's) family jewels
John Couch Adams ignores his mail, loses Neptune
You really woudn't want to hang out with Karl Marx
Charles Darwin: glutton; worm dad; murderer?
James Glaisher, the Victorian weatherman who nearly became an astronaut
Sigmund Freud uses cocaine so much he thought numbers wanted to kill him
Arthur Conan Doyel gets pranked so hard he claims fairies exist
Thomas Edison's lesser-known invention: dial-a-ghost
Real-life supervillian Nicola Tesla takes the term 'pigeon fancying' a bit too literally
Marie Curie defies all the odds to accidently poison both herself and thousands of strangers
Albert Einstein: public nuisance, love rat
Kurt Gödel, the Disney princess who broke time
Maya Angelou, in: stop! or my mom will shoot
Ernest Hemingway may have been the worst double agent ever
Yukio Mishima and the shortest, gayest fascist coup in history
NASA forgets about women, toilets, and the metric system
